Joe Armstrong from the AIX Virtual User Group has arranged a follow up webinar on the Advanced Management Features for the HMC. You can find part 1 of this presentation on the AIX Virtual User Group wiki, but here's what Joe Armstrong advises about part II:...

I am preparing sessions for a POWER/AIX Technical Conference in Norway - unfortunately the only place they could book for the event was a Ski Resort up in the mountains and there is still good snow. It is a tough gig but someone has to do it :-) As part of...

Oracle provides a suite of vendor benchmarks to measure the performance of Oracle applications called the Oracle E-Business Suite Standard Benchmark. This benchmark is a comparable standard workload which demonstrates the performance and scalability of Oracle...

Walking the dog this week, you felt that spring was in the air. The boots with crampons were put back in the closet. The sun on my face, I could almost imagine reading in my beach chair. And my black lab found grass and dirt mounds, instead of making...

I was with a large UK based insurance company last week. They, and their facilities management team, run many very large machines like POWER6 595 and POWER7 Power 770/780. Most machines are 64 core and 2 TB of memory and running 160+ virtual machines (LPARs)...

For the longest time, people thought that humans could not run a mile in less than four minutes. Then, in 1954, [ Sir Roger Bannister ] beat that perception, and shortly thereafter, once he showed it was possible, many other runners were able to achieve this...

That was a shock - right out of the blue, we are told HACMP (OK we should call it PowerHA SystemMirror but life is too short) now supports Versioned WPARs - I had customer questions on this earlier in the week but no idea it was about to be announced. We were...

Tonight PBS plans to air Season 38, Episode 6 of NOVA, titled [ Smartest Machine On Earth ]. Here is an excerpt from the station listing:
"What's so special about human intelligence and will scientists ever build a computer that rivals the flexibility...

I asked Scott about a Redbook for the new VIOS functions for Shared Storage Pools and he told me that chapters had already been added to the current PowerVM Redbooks. I almost fell of the chair! I have been ignoring the regular Redbook update emails - but I...

The AIX Virtual User Group provides monthly free webinars which are a quick, technical look at some great AIX-related topics. You can register to get email notification of upcoming topics, which is how I learned about this one: Advanced HMC Management...

I try to be a social media maven but I am certainly not a social butterfly. Amazingly enough I have been invited to not one but two parties the week after next. These parties happen to be "watch parties." To celebrate the event of the IBM Watson...

We have blogged on this really cool AIX 7 feature in the past - but here is my problem: Once I install the AIX 5.2 mksysb image in to the Workload Partition running on AIX7 it all works fine but ... then what can I show an audience to show off "AIX 5.2...

I have just released a second VIOS Shares Storage Pools movie that you may like to go and watch. We now have two movies covering first an Introduction (the new movie) and then second movie covering a hands-on look at setting it up and running it. There are...